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The Impossible Brief

The dark art, in The Shelf by Mark Alexander of Bamboo Marketing, is the set of moves for a brief no setting of the five levers can deliver: sell the risk, borrow the reward, make it conditional, cap it in time or number, or change the promise.

Read the full chapter: Chapter 7, The Impossible Brief.

Score an idea with Trudy LiteFree and anonymous. Trudy reads your promotion against the Five Levers and names the move. Book a promotion pressure-testA fixed-price Kill Sheet review by Trevor Services before you commit the budget.